The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.” — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
“Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.” — Blaise Pascal Doctrine Copy Share Image
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. — Blaise Pascal Best family Copy Share Image
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Audience Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who… — Blaise Pascal Acting Copy Share Image
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views… — Blaise Pascal Advantage Copy Share Image
“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do… — Blaise Pascal Human dignity Copy Share Image
“We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness… — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
“Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power. It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing… — Blaise Pascal Opinion Copy Share Image
“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Infinity Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me , for I can lose these qualities without… — Blaise Pascal Losing myself Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. — Blaise Pascal Grief Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. — Blaise Pascal Heresy Copy Share Image
![“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f75/blaise-pascal-167_comprehending_since-man-is-infinitely-removed-from-com_2798750.jpg)
